Malone, Kemp. "Benjamin Franklin on Spelling Reform," _American Speech_, I, 96-100 (Nov., 1925). (Franklin was the "first American to tackle English phonetics scientifically.") Mason, W. S. "Franklin and Galloway: Some Unpublished Letters," _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, N. S. XXXIV, 227-58 (Oct., 1924). (Significant sidelights cast on "the problems of Pennsylvania colonial history from 1757 to 1760." Excellent summary of Franklin's and Galloway's victory over the Proprietors. Mr. Mason's collection includes many valuable letters [Franklin-Galloway] between 1757 and 1772, not published in Smyth.) Mathews, Mrs. L. K. "Benjamin Franklin's Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750-1775," _American Political Science Review_, VIII, 393-412 (Aug., 1914). Melville, Herman. _Israel Potter._ London: 1923. (Graphic intuitive portrait of Franklin: he lives as a "household Plato," "a practical Magian in linsey-woolsey," a "didactically waggish," prudent courtier who "was everything but a poet.") _Mémoires de l'Abbé Morellet, de l'Académie Française, sur le dixhuitième siècle et sur la Révolution._ 2 vols. Paris: 1821. (Especially II, 286-311. Franklin viewed as very emblem of Liberty.) Montgomery, T. H. _A History of the University of Pennsylvania from Its Foundation to A. D. 1770._ Philadelphia: 1900. _Monthly Review; or Literary Journal: By Several Hands._ London: 1770. XLII, 199-210, 298-308. ("The experiments and observations of Dr. Franklin constitute the _principia_ of electricity, and form the basis of a system equally simple and profound.") *More, P. E. "Benjamin Franklin," in _Shelburne Essays_, Fourth Series. New York: 1906, pp. 129-55. (Provocative appraisal: stresses Franklin's "contemporaneity," his tendency to be oblivious to the past--a suggestive, if a moot point.) Morgan, W. _Memoirs of the Life of Rev. Richard Price._ London: 1815. (Notes on Franklin's relations with Price during early 1760's; meetings at Royal Society and London Coffee-house.) Mottay, F. _Benjamin Franklin et la philosophie pratique._ Paris: 1886. (Good model for citizens of a free nation and "le véritable catechisme de l'homme vertueux." Also several just remarks on his style which possesses "les mots épiques d'un Corneille et les élégantes périphrases d'un Racine.") Moulton, C. W., ed. _Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors_. Buffalo, N. Y.: 1901. IV, 79-106. (Stimulating assembly of extracts which aids student in discovering the history of Franklin's reputation.) Mustard, W. P. "Poor Richard's Poetry," _Nation_, LXXXII, 239, 279 (March 22, April 5, 1906). (Indicates Franklin's borrowings from Dryden, Pope, Prior, Gay, Swift, and others.)